Alita: Battle Angel - Review

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Alita: Battle Angel was a visual masterpiece, you would expect nothing less when James Cameron is attached. The fight sequences were stunning, the premise of the movie was an interesting take on a post-apocalyptic world where cyborgs are among us.

The casting with Christopher Waltz, Jennifer Connelly and Mahershala Ali were great choices, not leaving out Ed Skrein and Jackie Earle Haley who are also great actors. Rosa Salazar is in the main role as Alita and although unrecognizable I thought was a good choice to put in that role. Each one are proven to have the ability to be awesome on screen.

Now we have covered the excellence of the CGI used and how amazing each actor are in their own right, lets get to why this movie with this stellar cast and epic visuals fell flat…

It had all the hallmarks to be the next Avatar, the next big thing but I left the movie with so many questions and so much confusion but not in the way where you are thinking ‘oh my god what happened, that all blew my mind I need to watch it again’ and more with a thought of ‘oh…was that it?’

The story felt so heavily rushed that you couldn’t really invest in any of characters. When finally, the movie seems to be going somewhere, it ends just like that. You are left sat there wondering what have I just watched? Yes obviously this was meant to set you up for the sequel but I was waiting for the big climax all throughout the movie which never seemed to come.

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The writing was so bland and unimaginative, it felt like something that should have been original, was just the same thing we have seen time and time again. Yes, I am aware that this is an adaption from the 1990’s Manga so the source material can not be helped. To be honest the source material is not the problem, The Manga was great, characters were developed, and you believed in them.

The issue here is they did not give you any time to form a bond with any of the characters, you jumped from each one with little not no background given other than a tragic story. After watching the first Lord of the Rings instalment you felt attached to Frodo and Samwise. The same with the Harry Potter franchise, you cared what happened to the characters, you hand a bond with them and that all started with the first movie and how well it was written.

You do not leave Alita: Battle Angel feeling like you care about what happens to the characters, even though they try their best to tug on the heart strings and really appeal to your emotions, for me, they failed in doing so. The main focus to them was clearly the epic CGI and not so much the story to go with it.

I really wanted to come away from this with a warm fuzzy feeling of ‘I have just witnessed the next big franchise to rival Marvel’ I didn’t get that.

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CGI/Visuals gets a deserved 10/10 Tekks

The movie its self gets a 5/10 Tekks and all the five are purely for visuals

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Let me know what you all think in the comments, lets talk about it.